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Walter ___, Dodgers manager before Tommy Lasorda
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alston
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Alston is an English language surname of Anglo-Saxon origin with several derivations. It may have evolved from the Middle English given name "Alstan", the prefix, Al- itself derived from different Old English words ("noble", "elf", "old", "shrine", "temple"), ...
Usage examples of alston.
As the officers left for their bunks, Alston signaled to Walker to stay.
Captain Alston said next morning, looking over the bales and boxes that her ship would be taking east.
Chief Master-at-Arms, execute the sentence," Alston said, her face like something carved from obsidian.
Isketerol replied, and Arnstein turned to Alston, excitement ablaze on his face.
They turned and focused on Alston with the same wariness and hate, perhaps the more so because of her strange skin and features.
Isketerol," Alston said, without looking around, "that I thank him for his assistance.
Captain Alston, of course, but her interests were rather specialized, and in any case she was… intimidating, that was the word he was looking for.
Captain Alston had left a fair number of her officers back on the island to oversee fishing and matters maritime, the ones who'd been there mainly as instructors for the cadets.
Captain Alston had impressed him as the type who enforced regulations with an old-fashioned absolutism.
Once things settle down, all the firearms will be handed back to their owners, unless the Town needs them—we're going to have to handle our own defense, and from what Captain Alston says there are some mighty rough people out there over the water.
Part of the crew were busy swabbing, painting, and chipping, but the rest were doing unarmed combat drill, under the tutelage of Lieutenant Walker and the captain —Doreen supposed that Alston had ordered it on the principle that the devil made work for idle hands.
It ended with Walker skidding backward on his backside, clutching his gut, and Alston standing in a straddle-legged horse stance, shaking her head and wiping blood from her upper lip.
She'd shifted the sound of what she said, too, closer to the broad soft vowels that Alston used: ah unnahstaan.
Swindapa is connected with a prominent family in the… I don't think it's a kingdom or a country, exactly, but it occupies most of southwestern England in this era," Alston said.
What Alston thought of as the father's role in a child's life fell more to the mother's brothers or other male kin, since they'd always be there.